Why hospitals are like airlines

After a recent experience waiting for my mother to have surgery at a hospital, I offer the following comparisons with air travel:

Wait times:

• Hospitals make you come in advance of your scheduled surgery time and make you wait in uncomfortable chairs for hours.
• Airlines make you come in advance of your scheduled flight time and make you wait in uncomfortable chairs for hours.

Preparing:

• Hospitals make you put on skimpy gowns that expose your nether regions to cold drafts and everyone's sight.
• Airport security checks make you feel like your nether regions have been exposed.

Delays:

• Surgery is always delayed and takes longer than scheduled.
• Airline flights are frequently delayed and take longer than scheduled too.

Food:

• Hospital food is mass prepared in a cafeteria miles away, put on trays where they try to keep it hot before it is served to you, at a time when you probably don't want to eat.
• Same with airline food (who wants to eat a full meal at 11PM?)

Now if I could only get Aeroplan miles at the hospital......